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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do students whose parents cannot come for parents' weekend do?
(a) Mope around the campus.
(b) Spend time with their faculty advisor.
(c) Spend time with a professor and his family.
(d) Go to lunch or dinner with a roommate's family.

2. Why is Barbara not evicted after Cedric comes home for the summer?
(a) Neddy pays the rent.
(b) A minister from church pays the rent.
(c) Cedric pays the rent.
(d) The landlord decides to give Barbara one more extension.

3. Who sends Cedric $200 a month?
(a) His mother.
(b) Dr. Korb.
(c) The I Have a Dream Foundation.
(d) Clarence Thomas.

4. Why is Cedric attending Alumni Day at Ballou?
(a) He has been asked to speak.
(b) He is looking forward to seeing old friends.
(c) He wants to see his old teachers.
(d) His mother asked him to.

5. Who tells Rob that he and Cedric would have probably been friends if they had not been roommates?
(a) Zayd.
(b) Billy Mosberg.
(c) His friend Caroline.
(d) Chiniqua.

6. What will Rob do sophomore year?
(a) Room with Cedric again.
(b) Move Harambee.
(c) Be a peer counselor in the freshman dorms.
(d) Transfer to another college.

7. What is the only class Cedric is not worried about at mid-term?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Discrete Math.

8. Who gives a concert at Brown on the final blowout weekend?
(a) Fugees.
(b) Roberta Flack.
(c) Venon.
(d) Mayhem.

9. Where is Zayd spending the summer after the freshman year?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Europe.
(c) Brown.
(d) Hollywood.

10. Why does Sherene tell Cedric Gilliam to get out of her apartment?
(a) The U.S. marshals are looking for him.
(b) He will not help pay bills.
(c) He is doing drugs.
(d) He escaped from prison.

11. What appetizer is Cedric served when he eats dinner with his sister and mother on parents' weekend?
(a) Beet flan.
(b) Shrimp cocktail.
(c) Escargot.
(d) Oysters on the half shell.

12. Who gets control of the music in Cedric's dorm room?
(a) Depends on the day of the week.
(b) The person who wins an arm wrestling match.
(c) The person who is alone in the room.
(d) Cedric, because it is his CD player.

13. What does Cedric have to do to pass Psychology?
(a) Write a paper and do an extra credit project.
(b) Take a makeup exam.
(c) Write a paper.
(d) Pass the final.

14. How much money does Barbara owe in back rent when Cedric comes home for the summer?
(a) $11,215.
(b) $630.
(c) $2,790.
(d) $3,450.

15. After Cedric finishes his Alumni Day speech, what does he see on a step?
(a) Textbooks.
(b) Dried blood.
(c) Students making out.
(d) Trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Cedric Gilliam going the day after Cedric's visit?

2. What does Zayd write during first semester?

3. What does Cedric do when he goes to a party with Chiniqua at Harambee House for the first time?

4. One October evening, why does Rob yell at Cedric?

5. How does Cedric's mother travel to Providence for parent's weekend?

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